Monday, August 26, 2013

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--donation bonus (day #7, post 3/5)--
Hector roared down the highway. Traffic was a bit heavier than before but still nowhere near as uncomfortable as the city. After a while, he remembered another question.

From what I've read, that's actually a misconception. While those elements are more "reactive" than sodium, they don't create bigger explosions because they react TOO quickly. The hydrogen doesn't have as much time to ignite, and thus, the explosions are disappointingly weak.

I'm not totally sure on the explosive potential of the elements, but as you go down the periodic table, they should become less and less reactive (I'll spare you the chemistry). However, once you get low enough, to elements such as cesium, their explosions would actually be nuclear.

Even if you don't want one guy's ability to be cesium in the mean time, it could be a really nasty power later on down the line when someone can effectively detonate a dirty bomb in an area and leave radioactive fallout behind so no humans can live in that area for decades. The nuclear elements might make for good leader abilities when they finally make their debuts.RD

I know there was at least one tv show that purported to test this very thing, but it was later revealed that they faked the explosions, presumably because they were more interested in blowing shit up than actually teaching their viewers something. I don't remember what the show was called, though.

And haha. Reading up on elements has been half the fun of writing this. Let me know if you find anything particularly cool, yeah?

Ok so servants have three different categories of abilities? First, the Imaginary Power, which cant be used against things that are supernatural. Next, Materialization, which will be unique to every servant. Last is Soul-Strengthening, which can be used to boost Materialization. Am I getting this right?

Also, Hector will be able to do the impossible with bis Nakama by his side lol

Cesium isn't fissile (won't sustain a chain reaction). Neither is its big brother francium, although that's radioactive. Heck, almost nothing is fissile; the only elements I know of with fissile isotopes are uranium, plutonium, curium and californium.

And in fact the bigger Group 1 elements are more reactive, since they lave a lower effective nuclear charge and are already predisposed to be electron donors. It's the ones on the right side of the periodic table, the chalcogens and halogens, that get less reactive as they get heavier